Change Install and configure to Install a bootloader

In step 6 should it read Install a bootloader instead of Install and configure? Configuration should be made once in chroot. At least that's the case with syslinux. The command /usr/sbin/syslinux-install_update -iam should be issued from within chroot to succeed. --Maevius (talk) 07:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Grub2 configuration

I took the liberty and edited the whole page. If someone could write a line or two about grub2 configuration that'd be great. --Maevius (talk) 09:10, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your contribution, but the point of this page is to not become another Beginner's guide. It's meant to be a concise checklist of things to be done. Falconindy (talk) 13:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, I thought about that... What if we moved it in its current state somewhere else and then revert this one as it were before?--Maevius (talk) 18:28, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

need to load Grub again or not

Just wanted to check, grub is loaded as part of base packages so there is no need to load it again. Simply install syslinux or configure grub. Mr Green 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Configure the bootloader

From the section Configure the bootloader in Configure the system: Shouldn't you edit the syslinux.cfg to point to the right / (root) partition? Or why don't we just put a link to the corresponding section of the syslinux page there? Guelfi (talk) 09:18, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

GRUB2 Installation

I moved GRUB2 installation after chroot. Otherwise it doesn't work.
grub-bios is in /mnt, so we need to tell grub-install about it.
But arch iso has grub 0.97, and installation - 2.00, so iso's grub doesn't understand installation's files.
--Shuk (talk) 11:42, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

grub install failure

This doesn't work for me.

It looks so similar to the Beginners' Guide as to be almost redundant, but the first subtle difference I came across meant (for me) that this procedure failed where the Beginners' Guide succeeded.

Under "GRUB" you have:

"Install GRUB2 to the harddrive containing your boot partition before you chroot."

# grub-install /dev/sda

doing so returns:

"Path /boot/grub is not readable by GRUB on boot. Installation is impossible. Aborting."

In the Beginners' Guide, this step takes place after chrooting, which (for me) works ok, (although the wording - "Install GRUB2 to the harddrive containing your boot partition before you chroot" - is the same, so I guess both wiki entries are at fault).
--bananabrain

Link Elinks to wiki

Just read that elinks is included on install iso, maybe add an alias/script to allow loading of wiki guide installation guide? --Mr Green